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Originally Posted by Dezzy

Fair points, although I might have been thinking of the old Testament. I'm pretty sure there was some death sentences and such in there.

Yeah there are lots of deaths murders rapes, adultery etc in the OT, there are also all forms of support to back up any particular belief.

But Christians look upon the OT as proof that God would send a Messenger, his son, that he would be born of the House of David etc.

It also provides Christians with the basic laws from God that jesus would have lived by, the ten commandments etc. A bedrock if you like for him to build his ministry on. The history of the people from who he was descended etc.

The New Testament also sort of accepts that the reader would have an understanding of the Old Testament particularly about gods promises to man (sending a saviour etc).